Rant #1:
When our own administration is putting out conflicting stories about how well things are going in Iraq and even Senators and Congressmen are starting to throw around the word “Vietnam,” things can’t be great over there.  How many more days are we going to have to wake up to the news that more Americans have died in some far-off country?  How many more people can we throw into Abu Ghraib and the other prisons over there?  Even the guy wh oruns Abu Ghraib said he believed that we were going to end the insurgency quickly—until last December, when he realized the numbers of people being thrown in his prison was skyrocketing.  “Business is booming,” he said—and that’s a direct quote.  How long can this country blindly follow this kind of cavalier leadership that is giving our country a bad name throughout the world?

Rant #2:
I’m sick to death of all this damn reality TV, and I’m tired of seeing mediocre-to-just-plain-bad TV shows getting renewed when good, quality programming is getting killed after literally only a handful of episodes.  On the one hand, we’ve got people who are famous simply for being reality TV stars—people who we’re now on a first-name basis with, like “Rob & Amber” or “Trista & Ryan”—who are making a living off just being on these shows, and then on the other hand, we’ve got these embarrassingly asinine shows like that moronic Stacked with Pam Anderson.  The networks wonder why we’re heading off to cable networks and shows on channels like HBO?  It’s because they’re feeding us this crap.  I’ll take Rescue Me over Fire Me ... Please every day of the week and twice on Sundays.